Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better On 30 October 1938, a US radio station broadcast a dramatisation of HG Wells’s apocalyptic novel The War of the Worlds. Some listeners, so we’re told, failed to realise what they had tuned into; reports …
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Pavel Durov allowed to leave France, where he is under investigation over criminal activity on messaging app Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, has said that he has returned to Dubai after being allowed to leave France, where he was under investigation. Durov was arrested at an airport near Paris last August …
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Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers “To the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,” wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe – then the social nerve centre of London’s gossiping elite. Fast forward to …
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Transparent back, flashing LEDs, novel design, long battery life and huge triple camera help this Android stand out London-based Nothing has brought one of the last things setting top-level phones apart from cheaper mid-range models down to a more affordable price: high-quality camera zoom. Cameras have long been the battleground of the most expensive phones, …
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Leaders on left bet on Musk’s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts For most of the 17-minute interview, Elon Musk stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to “eliminate waste and fraud” from government. His slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was …
Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in popularity Read More »
This ‘bed-in-a-box’ mattress gave our tester her best sleep in years and it’s hundreds of pounds cheaper than some of its rivals • The best mattresses: sleep better with our six rigorously tested picks I’ve been reviewing mattresses for about four years and suffering from broken sleep for three times as long. The right mattress …
From hacking screen time settings to bypassing website restrictions, young people make responsible parenting in the age of tech feel like a game of whack-a-mole. Here’s how to do it successfully I know I’m not alone as a parent when I admit I have often felt like an exasperated failure in trying to restrict what …
An unexpected bit of tech opened up a whole new world of possibilities for a frustrated, injured writer If you had asked me a month or two ago if I had ever had a spatial immersive experience, or what the chances were that at the age of 60, I would become an early adopter of …
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Numbers using satellite broadband system has been growing but users are having second thoughts due to Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration Tesla sales have tumbled, X has seen an exodus of users, and now it seems cracks are appearing among those who have turned to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system as a means of …
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This account of working life at Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant organisation describes a ‘diabolical cult’ able to swing elections and profit at the expense of the world’s vulnerable Shortly after her waters broke, Sarah Wynn-Williams was lying in hospital with her feet in stirrups, typing a work memo on her laptop between contractions. Facebook’s director …
